Maya Lakshmi Harris was born on January 30,1967 and is an American lawyer, public policy advocate, and writer.
15 Facts About Maya Harris
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Maya Harris is a daughter of Shyamala Gopalan Harris, a breast cancer researcher who emigrated from Chennai, India in 1960; and Donald Harris, a Jamaican-born Stanford University economics professor, now emeritus.
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Maya Harris received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989.
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In 2003, Maya Harris was the Northern California director for No on 54, the successful campaign to defeat Proposition 54, which sought to ban state agencies from collecting racial and ethnic data.
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In 2008, Maya Harris was appointed Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation.
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From 2008 until 2013, Maya Harris was Vice President for Democracy, Rights and Justice at the Ford Foundation.
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Maya Harris was a political and legal analyst for MSNBC from 2017 until 2018,.
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Maya Harris served as campaign chairwoman for her sister's 2020 campaign for president until the campaign's suspension.
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Maya Harris authored the essay "Fostering Accountable Community-Centered Policing", which appeared in the 2006 book The Covenant with Black America.
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In 2008, Maya Harris published Making Every Vote Count: Reforming Felony Disenfranchisement Policies and Practices in California.
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In 2020, Maya Harris wrote in The Atlantic and Women's Health Magazine about living with the chronic illness lupus.
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In 2006, Maya Harris was named one of 10 notable Desis of the year.
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Maya Harris was awarded the Women Who Dare Award from Girls, Inc in 2008.
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Maya Harris has been married to Tony West since July 1998.
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In 2020, Maya Harris revealed she had been diagnosed with lupus at the age of 22.